The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-27
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THIS country's industry needs no more cod
ding. AS Dow, Junior. remarked: Its a
poor belly that can't warm its own pien-Phila-
delphia Record.
THE spoils of Office took Indiana away from
the Democrats last year, and the same thing is
now splitting the same party asunder in MARI
land.-Chicago Journal.
UNLESS the crop of cigar stumps runs short
and it doesn't promise to-there will DE plenty
of tobacco to keep the supply of cigarettes up
to the average quantity and quality.-Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
DEMOCRATIC blundering has exhausted the
treasury of Indiana and put the State into posi-
ton to suffer extra session of the Legislature.
There IS no luxury quite SO expensive to a SOW
erelgn commonwealth interva. of Demo
cratic misrule.-P Press.
THERE is no more radical free-trader in the
country than Henry George. and his careful
clusion of the subject from the platform of the
United Labor party is significant admission
that he recognizes that the workingmen whose
votes he seeks are generally opposed to free
trade. -Mllwaukee Sentinel.
WALL street is wondering why ''the stock
market Is SO demoraliZed when the whole coun-
try shows evidence of prosperity" The facts
simply are that the public lambs a little
tired of standing up to be sheared by the sharks
of Wall street That is the whole truth in
nutshell Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE disbelief in hell has become SO widespread
that some of the advanced apostles of free
thought" hardly believe In the existence of a
penitentiary. This appears to be the case with
some of our enormously rich railroad magnates
What the country needs is return the old
orthodox view of birthstone penitentiary.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
THE story that Governor Foraker and Mr.
Blaine are conspiring to give the Ohio Demo
Gratis the next Legislature in order to hold Sena-
tor Sherman where he Is until his term is out, is
absolutely the most idiotlc yarn that has been
spun this season. The man who invented it
should have his name changed for the sake Of
his family.-Detroit Tribune.
POVERTY is not bar to American Hospitality
but when 1T comes to emptying upon heads
the universal Stop bucket it is high time to enter
an emphatic protest and, if need be- interpose
impossible barrier in the nature of a strin-
rse1t Law against the landing at any of our Amer
lean ports of persons coming under the head of
vicious. pauper, or minal.-Chicago Tribune.
IF the xorkiugmen of this country will study
the systems of cooperation, both that which in
cludes capital in the partnership and that which
consists of labor alone and which hires capital,
they will find in them the only safe remedy for
the ills Of which they complain, and the only
method by which the production can be properly
divided between the labor and capital required
to create it.-Natonal Republican.
THERE is one trust that nobody should dis
trust-the whisky trust The meaner, more
grasDing and more effective this trust the better
for the public. The trustees of this gigantic
combination intend to regulate the
facture that it will pay 10 per cent or more to
the old distillers who hold certificates. They
should be given all encouragement in this
scheme to gouge consumers. -Sprlngfield Re
publican.
PowDERLY has issued manifesto against the
alleged new American party" The apparent
purpose of this declaration is to prevent the
general master workman from getting into any
more trouble than is otherwise certain to occur
at the coming national convention of the
Knights of Labor. large proportion of the
mem ershlp of this order is made up of men of
foreign birth, who naturally will bitterly oppose
the new party" hence Mr.. Powderys wild de-
nunciation of it.-Philadelphia Evening Tele-
graph.
Mr. ROSWELL P. FLOWER and some other
Democrats telling newspaper interviewers
that they do not believe that Mr.. Cleveland can
be renominated The statement. however. does
no credit to their political sagacitv. The Demo
Gratis are not unspeakably foolish as to repu-
date Cleveland and 60 before the country ask
ing for another administration upon the ground
tn at their present administration is a failure
which is precisely what they would be doing
with any other man than Cleveland for candl-
date-Chicago Times.
THE popular feeling in favor of restricting
immigration is growing The subject will I'M
be brought to the attention of Con-
gress at its next session. and some practical leg
islation may be had on it. If not at the next
session, surely in the near future. But there is
no danger that the conservative people of the
United States will run off after any organ
ization which adyertises that it has a patent
r remedy for this evil They will look to the wis
dom and craftsmanship of the country to meet
this question fairly and to work out its solution
in the best way possible-Atlanta Constitution.